Activities in 2006

Science Education and Outreach courses

In Fall, Winter and Spring 2005, a new course on Science Education and Outreach will be offered to juniors and seniors to provide them with training and experience in designing science activities for K-12 classrooms; learning to teach life science and agriculture related topics to K-12, and learning to communicate to non-discipline audiences. Activities developed in the course will be implemented in rural classrooms and in after school clubs.

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Students can also sign up for an internship in Science Education and Outreach.

For more information on the course and internship contact Sujaya Rao

Discovering Partners in Nature

A new pollination unit will be implemented by OSU faculty and students in Central Linn High School, Falls City Elementary School, Inavale Elementary School and Seven Oak Middle School in 2005-2006 through the Discovering Partners in Nature program funded by Toshiba America Foundation. The program is geared to provide rural students a scientist experience while integrating scientific inquiry and discovery, experience with advanced technology, and an opportunity for scientific communication. K-12 students, with guidance from an OSU graduate student and OSU faculty, will collect flowers, and trap bees from around their schoolyards. Plants and bees will form a permanent collection at each school. Students will visit OSU to use a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to compare pollen samples from bees and flowers to discover for themselves which bees pollinate which flowers. They will present their results during a conference in spring 2006 on campus to be attended by university and school administrators, parents, community leaders, TAF, and Oregon stakeholders. This program has the added value of being part of a larger research study on bee diversity being conducted at OSU.